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Hmm, where were we? Ah, yes, he was talking about how movies can be built or deconstructed because of Killers, which has the elliptical, episodic structure of many of his other films. Less narrative, more atmosphere, more information by way of anecdote, by way of scene, by way of character. “What I had hoped to do, and I didn’t do this intentionall... See more
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
In this way, as an editor he did more than reflect the standards of his age; he consciously influenced and changed them by the new talents he published.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
The magazine’s patented celebrity-on-celebrity dialogues compounded the formula, like mixing colors on a palette. Instead of a journalist to interview Jack Nicholson, get Julian Schnabel. (For the results, see the April, 2003, issue.)
Michael Schulman • The Legacy of Interview Magazine and a Trip to 1988
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Scorsese said he wanted to see how the Band’s music was made. Where did it come from? “I wanted to see what that magic was,” he said. “But ultimately there’s a lifestyle, too, that goes along with it. And a lot of it has to do with partying. And, okay: Partying went way out of hand for me. Because I didn’t know how to control it. But, I also wanted... See more
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
But Woody Allen changed everything. Woody Allen made it acceptable for beautiful women to sleep with nerdy, bespectacled goofballs;
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
He makes sense of our life and our commitments in a world that thinks what we are doing is naivete at best and folly at worst. He has turned our world upside down.
Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
Rogers was one of the first pop stars to achieve fame by unintentionally captivating the Internet, and, strangely, she was also one of the last. These days, virality is not so much a lightning strike as a marketing scheme, reverse engineered by executives and masquerading as serendipity. A. & R. representatives often scout new talent by dissect... See more
Maggie Rogers’s Journey from Viral Fame to Religious Studies
Will Oldham on Steve Albini: ‘He elevated the quality of the human experience’
Will Oldhamtheguardian.com